with clerk of the courts. Damages. Amendment to 1888, 319, § 10. Chap.204 Amendment to Property of married women. piers and abutments, shall file in the office of the clerk of the courts of the county where the land lies a report and survey showing the quantity of every owner's land in said county taken for the purposes aforesaid; also such estimate of damages as said commissioners, after a hearing of the parties, shall award for land so necessarily taken and appropriated for said purposes. SECTION 3. Any party aggrieved by the assessment of damages by said commissioners may make application for a jury, of the county where the land lies, to revise and reassess his damages; and all proceedings in relation thereto shall be in accordance with the provisions of chapter forty-nine of the Public Statutes. SECTION 4. Section ten of chapter three hundred and nineteen of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight is hereby amended in the fourth line thereof by striking out "one hundred" and inserting in place thereof: one hundred and seventy-five. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT CONCERNING THE PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN. SECTION 1. Section one of chapter one hundred and forty-seven of the Public Statutes is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the words :- or his tenancy for life in one-half of her real estate in case the husband and wife have had no issue born alive which might have inherited such estate, so as to read as follows: Section 1. The real and personal property of a woman shall upon her marriage remain her separate property, and a married woman may receive, receipt for, hold, manage and dispose of property, real and personal, in the same manner as if she were sole, except that she shall not without the written consent of her husband destroy or impair his tenancy by the curtesy in her real estate or his tenancy for life in one-half her real estate in case the husband and wife have had no issue born alive which might have inherited such estate. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved April 5, 1889. AN ACT CONCERNING THE BALDWIN PLACE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: LITTLE Chap.205 SECTION 1. The corporation established by chapter Name changed. ninety-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five under the name of the Baldwin Place Home for Little Wanderers, shall hereafter be called and known as the New England Home for Little Wanderers. sonal estate. SECTION 2. Said corporation may hold real and per- Real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars in addition to the amount which it is now authorized by law to hold. SECTION 3. The number of managers of said corpo- Managers. ration may be increased, by vote of the board of managers, to any number not exceeding twenty-one, and the said board of managers shall have the right to limit and define the term of office of the managers; and that provision of the constitution of said corporation which forbids any change to be made therein, except as made necessary by law, is hereby annulled. may be ap. SECTION 4. Said corporation may be appointed guar- Corporation dian of any minor child in its care, with the same powers pointed guarand duties as are prescribed for guardians of minor chil- dian. dren by chapter one hundred thirty-nine of the Public Statutes. Approved April 5, 1889. AN ACT TO PROVIDE CLERICAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE CLERK OF THE Chap.206 assistance. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap.207 AN ACT TO ABOLISH THE HOPLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE Hopland School District abolished. Funds, etc., to be transferred TOWN OF LEE. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The act of the legislature, approved March seventh in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and ninety-one, incorporating a certain part of the town of Lee in the county of Berkshire into a school district by the name of the Hopland School District, and all subsequent acts or parts of acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto are hereby repealed. SECTION 2. The treasurer of the said Hopland School to town of Lee. District shall, and is hereby authorized, upon the passage of this act to convey and transfer to the town of Lee all the funds and all other property of whatever nature now belonging to said Hopland School District. Property to be used for support of schools. Money, etc., received to be tion of all taxes, etc. SECTION 3. The town of Lee shall, under the direction of their school committee, use and expend all the money, funds and avails of any property received from the Hopland School District under this act for the support and maintenance of schools in said town in the same manner as other school funds are used. SECTION 4. The money, funds and property received in full satisfac. from said Hopland School District under this act shall be in full satisfaction of all taxes, assessments and claims which said town might make or have under the provisions of chapter forty-five of the Public Statutes of this Commonwealth on account of the abolition of said Hopland School District. Property liable to taxation for all purposes. SECTION 5. After the passage of this act the property included in the territory formerly the said Hopland School District, shall be liable to taxation and be assessed and taxed for all purposes, including the support of schools, school-houses and school purposes, the same as the property in other parts of said town. SECTION 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.208 AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE RETURNS OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS. Certified copy of record of certain births and deaths. SECTION 1. The clerk or registrar of each city and town shall on the first day of each month make a certified. copy of the record of all deaths and births recorded in the books of said city or town during the previous month, SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. AN ACT PROVIDING FOR ADDITIONAL CLERICAL ASSISTANCE IN THE Chap.209 OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF PROBATE AND INSOLVENCY FOR THE COUNTY OF WORCESTER. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: additional cleri SECTION 1. The register of probate and insolvency Allowance for for the county of Worcester shall be allowed, in addition cal assistance. to the amount now allowed by law, a sum not exceeding five hundred and fifty dollars per annum for clerical assistance actually performed, to be paid from the treasury of the Commonwealth upon the official certificate of the judge of probate and insolvency for said county. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved April 5, 1889. AN ACT RELATIVE TO VOTING BY PROXY AT MEETINGS OF STREET RAILWAY COMPANIES. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap.210 cast more than SECTION 1. Section twelve of chapter one hundred No person to and thirteen of the Public Statutes, relative to voting by fifty votes as proxy at meetings of street railway companies, is hereby proxy, unless, amended by striking out at the end thereof the words "and no person shall, as proxy or attorney, cast more than fifty votes, unless all the shares so represented by him are owned by one person." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.211 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE SALARY OF THE JUDGE OF PROBATE Salary of judge. AND INSOLVENCY FOR THE COUNTY OF BRISTOL. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The salary of the judge of probate and insolvency for the county of Bristol shall be twenty-five hundred dollars a year, to be so allowed from the first day of March in the year eighteen hundred and eightynine. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Chap.212 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE FURTHER AND SPEEDIER PUBLICA Publication and distribution of the laws. TION OF THE LAWS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The secretary of the Commonwealth shall hereafter cause to be published at the close of each session of the general court three thousand copies of the pamphlet edition of the acts and resolves passed, and of any proposed amendments of the constitution agreed to during such session, in addition to the number now required by section three of chapter four of the Public Statutes, and he shall also cause a copy of each separate portion or signature, so called, of such edition, as soon as it be may printed, to be sent to each of the following officers: the clerks of the several cities and towns, for the use of the inhabitants thereof; the justices and clerks of the supreme judicial and superior courts; the judges and clerks of the municipal, police and district courts; the judges and registers of the probate courts; the district attorneys; the sheriffs; the trial justices; the justices of the peace designated to issue warrants and take bail; the county law libraries of the Commonwealth. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved April 5, 1889. Chap.213 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF NORTHBOROUGH TO RAISE May raise money for erection of a monument. A SUM OF MONEY FOR THE PURPOSE OF ERECTING A MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF MARY GOODNOW. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The town of Northborough is hereby authorized to raise by taxation the sum of one hundred dollars for the purpose of erecting a monument to the |